Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is updated on Israel’s Nepal relief efforts.
Col. Yoram Laredo, who is heading the Israeli delegation, tells the prime minister in a telephone conversation that the Israeli team will set up a field hospital to treat those wounded in the earthquake, as well as work to locate Israelis.
“You are being sent on an important mission,” Netanyahu says. “This is the real face of Israel — a state that comes to assist those far away at moments like these. Good luck, we are counting on you.”
An IDF medical delegation left Sunday with 95 tons of equipment to set up a field hospital including a laboratory, X-ray machines, operating rooms, children’s treatment rooms and birthing facilities.
Some 260 people were to staff the facilities, among them IDF medical personnel, Home Front Command search and rescue units, and three dog handlers with rescue dogs. The flight was to follow an earlier detachment of seven IDF search and rescue experts who rushed out to Nepal overnight Saturday.
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